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Tuesday, 18 September 2012 Article No. 7135 Available on www.roymorgan.com Link to Roy Morgan Profiles Thursday, 9 February 2017 Digital audience growth continued to drive newspaper readership higher in 2016 Roy Morgan Research today releases the latest Print Readership and Cross-Platform Audience results for Australian Newspapers for the 12 months to December 2016. Alongside a number of success stories in print, just over half of mastheads increased their total E cross-platform reach compared with the previous results to September 2016—and readership via websites and apps was again the driving force behind that growth. Print Readership Highlights 8,153,000 million Australians aged 14+ (41 percent) read print newspapers in an average week in 2016. This is down 4.3 percent, or just over half a million readers, compared with 2015. Appetite for print news continues to hold strongest on Saturdays. 4.9 million read Saturday print newspapers in an average week (down 2.7 percent). Sunday titles reach 4.4 million (down 4.3 percent), and Monday to Friday dailies reach a combined 5.7 million readers during the week (down 4.8 percent). Readers return to weekday national titles News Corp’s and Fairfax’s national titles have both gained weekday readers. The Australian is up 8.0 percent year-on-year, with 336,000 readers per average Monday to Friday issue in 2016— 25,000 more than in 2015. The Australian Financial Review is up 3.1 percent to 201,000 readers. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAS Melbourne vs Sydney The Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun each continued to post strong readership results in print on weekdays and Saturdays. The Herald Sun rose 1.0 percent to 850,000 readers for its average Monday to Friday issue, and 5.0 percent on Saturdays to 823,000. The Daily Telegraph was up 1.4 percent to 639,000 on weekdays, and was steady with 599,000 Saturday readers. The Age is now once again more widely read in print than the Sydney Morning Herald from Monday to Friday. In 2016, the latter title fell 8.9 percent to 468,000 on weekdays, while its southern stablemate fell just 0.4 percent, holding 473,000 print readers. Bright lights, small cities The Illawarra Mercury, Geelong Advertiser, Cairns Post and The Advocate each gained readers for all their average Monday to Friday and Saturday editions, while the Townsville Bulletin and Newcastle Herald posted weekend gains to compensate for weekday declines. However the Gold Coast Bulletin was far from golden, with double-digit percentage declines across the week—a fate also shared by two Tasmanian titles, The Examiner and the Mercury. The West isn’t best Seven West Media’s flagship newspaper masthead had the most weekday readers disappear between 2015 and 2016. 62,000 West Australians stopped reading the weekday issues of their only home-grown print newspaper (down 14.3 percent to 373,000). Meanwhile 56,000 fewer read the Weekend West (down 9.8 percent to 514,000). The Sunday Times, which was acquired from News Corp last year, didn’t fare any better: down 12.7 percent to 370,000 readers. Newspaper Average Issue Print Readership: 2015 vs 2016 M-F M-F Sat Sat Sun Sun 2015 2016 2015 2016 2015 2016 National The Australian 311 336 663 636 - - Aust. Financial Review 195 201 159 117 - - E The Saturday Paper - - 112 114 - - NSW Daily Telegraph 630 639 599 599 - - Sydney Morning Herald 514 468 724 695 - - Sunday Telegraph - - - - 995 965 The Sun-Herald - - - - 656 634 Newcastle Herald 82 79 98 102 - - Illawarra Mercury 33 41 36 41 - - Canberra Times 65 52 79 69 51 47 VIC Herald Sun 842 850 784 823 - - The Age 475 473 588 660 - - Sunday Herald Sun - - - - 866 862 The Sunday Age - - - - 470 528 Geelong Advertiser 52 60 71 79 - - QLD Courier-Mail 410 369 517 479 - - The Sunday Mail - - - - 807 739 Cairns Post 49 51 73 75 - - Gold Coast Bulletin 78 61 88 68 - - Townsville Bulletin 48 43 53 55 - - SA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAS Adelaide Advertiser 321 312 378 368 - - Sunday Mail - - - - 432 431 WA West Australian 435 373 - - - - Weekend West - - 570 514 - - Sunday Times - - - - 424 370 Tasmania The Mercury 78 53 108 76 - - The Examiner 48 34 55 43 - - The Advocate 34 36 39 44 - - Sunday Tasmanian - - - - 92 68 Sunday Examiner - - - - 54 48 Northern Territory Northern Territory News 33 34 42 42 - - Sunday Territorian - - - - 33 33 View the full Newspaper Average Print Issue Readership Results Newspaper Inserted Magazines 4,823,000 Australians read one or more Newspaper Inserted Magazines in an average week (down 4.1 percent year-on-year). The inaugural results for Stellar are fine—but not stellar. The new Sunday magazine from News Corp reached an average 878,000 readers per issue over its first few months. This is slightly below its predecessor Sunday Style’s final result of 900,000 readers—despite the benefit of a third host News Corp masthead, Queensland’s Sunday Mail, joining the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Herald Sun. It will be interesting to watch this space as Sunday newspaper readers discover this new title. The country’s most-read insert, Good Weekend has made a big comeback, up 10.9 percent to 1,332,000 readers per average issue in 2016—the title’s best readership result since March 2015. E View the full Newspaper Inserted Magazine Readership Results Cross-Platform Audience Highlights The total cross-platform reach of Australian mastheads measured across both print and digital increased to 13.1 million in 2016. Two in three Australians now access these news mastheads across any platform and any device in an average week. Eight of the 15 publications increased their cross-platform readership, compared with the previous quarterly results for the 12 months to September 2016. Notably, the total growth for all eight of these mastheads was driven (in most cases entirely) by an increase in digital readership. Conversely, the seven that declined all posted a drop in digital readership as well as print. Six mastheads reach over two million Australians in an average week, and all of these giants are among the winners. The Sydney Morning Herald continues to lead with 4,238,000 readers per week across print and digital—86 percent of which comes via its website and app. The Daily Telegraph reached 3,254,000 (67 percent digital), ahead of the Herald Sun (3,050,000, 64 percent digital), The FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAS Age (2,924,000, 84 percent digital), The Australian (2,474,000, 71 percent digital) and the Courier- Mail (2,153,000, 62 percent digital). The two other winners were the Canberra Times (525,000, 86 percent digital), and the regional Weekly Times (310,000, 15 percent digital). Newspaper Cross-Platform Audiences 2016 Digital Total Print (web or Cross- app) Platform Dec 2016 Dec 2016 Dec 2016 Publication (000's) (000's) (000's) Adelaide Advertiser 639 714 1156 The Age 959 2464 2924 The Australian 931 1756 2474 Canberra Times 105 449 525 Courier-Mail 1099 1344 2153 Daily Telegraph 1478 2188 3254 Financial Review 415 1048 1342 E Herald Sun 1552 1951 3050 Mercury 116 140 229 Newcastle Herald 153 155 290 The Saturday Paper 114 162 265 Sunday Times 370 803 1050 Sydney Morning Herald 1132 3644 4238 Weekly Times 271 48 310 West Australian 749 703 1236 Print is net 7-day readership; digital is website visitation and app usage in an average 7 days. View the full Cross-Platform Audiences Results Michele Levine, CEO, Roy Morgan Research, says: “The trustworthiness of media will be one of the defining issues of 2017. Amid all the talk about ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’ are reports of erroneous reach figures from digital publishers. Just as audiences are seeking clarity about what and whom to believe, so too media agencies and advertisers need a reliable, independent measure of cross-platform reach. It is up to the publishers to prove themselves—to the public and the industry. “Roy Morgan’s latest Newspaper Readership results to the end of 2016 show that the big FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAS are getting bigger, and the small smaller. The most-read mastheads continue to grow, thanks to increasing numbers of website and app readers—while some including the Adelaide Advertiser, West Australian, Newcastle Herald and the Mercury, aren’t converting their print readers into online audiences. “Clearly, rather than make the transition to the digital version of their home newspaper, some print readers in Adelaide, Perth, Newcastle and Hobart instead read the national or ‘big city’ mastheads when going online. “As publishers continue to evaluate their paywall, metered and freemium revenue models, and the reach versus reward of distribution through Apple, Facebook and Google, the coming year may well prove to have long-term impacts on how readers value and use news media.” For comments or more information about Roy Morgan Research Readership, please call: (+61) (3) 9224 5309 or email [email protected] About Roy Morgan Research Roy Morgan Research is the largest independent Australian research company, with offices in each state of Australia, as well as in New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom. A full service research organisation specialising in omnibus and syndicated data, Roy Morgan Research has over 70 years’ experience in collecting objective, independent information on consumers. E FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAS.
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